The Orchard Partnership
Monthly Quiz – July 2015
1. What are the next three numbers in this series?
4 6 12 18 30 42 60 72 102 108 X Y Z
2. Rearrange the letters of the first word to form a new one, then rearrange
the letters of the new word to form a third.
ASLEEP _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
PARTS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
IDEALS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3. A man pushes his car by a hotel and gets sent to jail. Why?
4. When Florence and Willie finished playing darts, they proudly
announced that their 3-digit scores added up to exactly 800 points.
Furthermore, each of their scores shared the same 3 digits, without any
repeating digits. What were their two scores?
50p
Answers
Each number is surrounded by a prime number.
4 – 3 and 5 are prime
6 – 5 and 7 are prime
etc.
The next three numbers after 108 that have primes before and after them are:
138, 150 and 180.
A. ASLEEP, PLEASE, ELAPSE
B. PARTS, TRAPS, STRAP (TARPS or SPRAT also work)
C. IDEALS, SAILED, LADIES
The man is playing monopoly, and landed on the Go To Jail space. An alternative version of this
is, “A man stops his car in front of a hotel and immediately knows he is bankrupt.” The answer is
the same, that he’s playing Monopoly, but this time he landed on a space with a hotel and didn’t
have enough money to pay the bill.
364 and 436.
50p